eldership

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"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023

But the proper, public, official, authoritative power, is quite denied to the body of the people, furnished with an eldership or destitute thereof.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

The weight of authority is certainly very decidedly in favour of the opinion which identifies this eldership with the presbytery.

From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by Fleming, David Hay

I mind o' Jeemie Ritchie when he got his eldership.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

The ceremonies of ordination are declared to be fasting, earnest prayer, and imposition of the hands of the eldership.

From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by Fleming, David Hay